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| PLATFORM: | Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows XP |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Vivendi Universal |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Manage your minions as you train them to develop evil technology and super-weapons, Build your secret base and defend it against attacks by obnoxious action heroes and government agents in real time, Play a malevolent mastermind bent on global domination through the construction of the ultimate doomsday device, Control a secret island fortress staffed with henchmen, minions, femmes fatale, and a host of hilarious gizmos, Master base building, real-time combat, minion training, techno-research, and mission deployment |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | 72124 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 020626721240 |
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Customer Reviews of Evil Genius
Almost Unplayable Living proof that you can go wrong with a classic James Bond Spoof. The style is great, the plot is great, but the problems more than make up for it. <
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>This game is very "Sim" like, fair enough, but it becomes overly Sim like when you have to buy your minions ping pong tables and arcade machines. Thankfully you do not have to build them bathrooms or clean up after them when they forget to go. <
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>The real Sim Imported Weakness is however in the AI. Your minions are incredibly stupid, even your henchman have fairly unresponsive controls and there is no AI override, so when your Sims get stuck in a corner because two of them have contradictory instruction sets, there is absolutely nothing you can do but replace them and redo whatever they were doing. <
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>If there is something you need to do and that requires some of your Sims do something particular, say you need a particular item to be researched by one of your scientists, you can not prioritize this. Essentially, you are going to have to sit there and wait while putting out spot fires with your unresponsive henchmen until one of your Sims randomly decides to do this, which could take many hours. <
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>The controls are simple but highly unresponsive. The most challenging thing about this game, is the amount of time you waste redoing things because your henchmen just stood there like idiots. You can give them an instruction, but the instruction spools and if a lot of other things are going on at once, say four out of five super agents are wrecking your base, there is a good chance that your henchman's instructions will be the very last thing to implement, possibly after a swarm of enemy soldiers have beaten them in to a bloody pulp. <
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>The micro management is a good demonstration of why micro management is a bad idea. You could have hundreds of doors, your enemies can unlock them all at once, you have to relock them one at a time. This is more tedious than anything else. Why pause buttons were invented, but all this pausing just artificially extends the length of the game. Sort of like time spent panning across your Island because even the mini map isn't mini enough to keep an eye on the other three quarters of it. <
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>In short, this game is for control freaks, but as it gives no control, is also a game for masochists. It is a game about world domination but it denies domination of even your own mouse. These are also not the sorts of problems that can be corrected with patches, the problems are intrinsic in the interface. <
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>There is also a problem with the texture mapping becoming corrupted, pretty much every system seems to do it, but they may have assumed you would not often look closely enough at the various agents to care if their skin become randomly wallpapered. you can still tell what they are by the mouse over, but it doesn't improve enjoy ability of the game. <
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>If you really like the genre, you will really want to enjoy this game, but unless you are extremely patient and expect nothing from it, you will be very disappointed. This game will keep you busy, but most of it is just busy work.
You'll Love It!
This is a great game - a masterpiece, an achievement - humorous, engaging, and fun - no computer problems from it, runs great on a good machine - try it! You'll easily get your $20 worth.
If you're thinking of becoming an evil Genius then...
If you've ever pondered becoming that "I want world domination" Evil Genius then this is you're entry level basics/"How-To" manual. It may be the most comical game I've ever played, the animation, graphics, game play and overall plot is excellent. However I've read the other reviews and I agree it is VERY frustrating at times and each time I became frustrated I'd simply start a new game and 60% of the fun is building that perfect evil lair. I find my self spending time doing things that are completely useless to game preogression, but is merely fun and evil. This game will have you laughing and scheming like you've never schemed before. My 8 year old nephew loves this game too, (so it's not THAT hard) but it can be very challenging and have you wanting to toss a mouse from time to time. As explained before you start out at the bottom of the food chain and you've got to build your empire and build up your minions (army, workers and henchmen, etc.). In the process of building the ultimate lair and evil empire you'll have your typical Hero "good-guys" trying to kill you and destroy your empire (that's the frustrating part). As the game progresses you'll find that a vast majority of your time is spent re-building instead of plotting and performing evil acts of infamy (stealing, destroying, kidnapping, party crashing and building up a reputation). If you've got 4-5 hours a day to spend on a game then this is for you, but don't think you'll sit down and breeze through this one, you'll HAVE to deticate many hours to this one. One of my favorites of all time!